Omaha daily bee., 1887-05-01

save the Chinese, and. perhaps, even
these not now, can live independent Of
outsiders.
The Wagnerphobists seem more than
ever determined, that no opera house
subsidized by the state, shall be given to
bring out any of Wagner's compositions;
il private establishment affords the re.
quired hospitality, 1t must take chance
for squalls. The brutal, and to all ap-
pearance inept, expulsion from Alsace of
NJ. Antoine, deputy ut the reichstag for a
district in Alsace, and leader of the
French sympathisers of the amputatcd
province, can only intensity the patriotic
set against the German composer, not
because he is n 1901 German, but
epoch, on the Gauls. Ne sutor ultra cre-
pidum. Rocheport who is passionate
admirer of scientific music, is rs usuaF
eccentric. He censures his countrymen
for refusing to take what is good from am
enemy. such rs Wagner's Parsifal and
Walkyrie. and which have moulded alf
modern French composers, but he OBJ
jccts to them purchasing German boots,
shoes, hats, stutts, toys, etc.
the walters and grocers' assistants in
Paris have since months been agitating
to put down the registry offices; as they
are having recourse to violence, they are
losing IN public sympathy They want
capital to found u central registry Office
OF their own. There are at least 200, 900
of walters, etc, in the city; one franc
from each would give more than double
held curious public meeting the other
day; the price of admission was five
sous; when the press members arrived
they Were refused admission, unless they
paid twenty sous; they offered five sous,
like an ordinary unit of the public. but
were met by declined with thanks. 1t
is the first time a press man was app
praised as being four times more import
ant-impossible to suppose more wealthy
than II member of the general public. it
is not much, but still something.
France does not know all her concealed
wealth. At BreSt, two state barges all
ornamented with gold like gingerbread
cake, have been discovered in the arsenal;
one was destined for Napoleon Ill, and
the other for his son. 1t appears guar
dian was tolled off to show these relics of
salary for the last sixteen years has cost
the republic 10000 francs 10 expcnd
such sum for a souvenir of the man of
Sedan, the extreme journals consider to
be more than humiliation, and next to
crime. Yet the same prudery does not
object to paying thousands of francs an
nually to guard more than the relics, of
THE MAN OF WATERLOO,
at the lnvalidcs.
Betting people commence to rub their
thumbs; the itching relates to the Congo
lottery of $50, ,O00.0 900 francs to recoup the
king of the Belgians his investment in the
dark continent. France will float the
tickets; imagine the partisans of the col
onial expansion of France, winning an
estate, whose extent would only be
measured by latitude and longitude. If
the tickets be put up at II franc the dis
tressed Irish might try their luck on that
land question.
Minister Lockroy has just stated that n
French consul was lately asked, to fur
nish trade information about the country
to which he was accredited He replied:
II only look after politics; for the other
matters must refer you to the English
| consulate